Pages

Monday, December 21, 2009

Weekend wanderings: Baluku, baptism & busyness

The weekend has been a busy, activity-packed one, since my in-laws are here, along with hubby's 12 year old cousin (that gives me lots of photo opportunities, which makes me even busier!). Amidst the usual shopping and eating out, I managed to go out for fieldwork on Friday afternoon along with the FIL and cousin, but that didn't go too well (that warrants an entire post on its own, so I won't elaborate here!)...

Then on Saturday, while baby J was napping, my mum called me and woke the fellow up. I ran over to get the boy who was crying, and being a major klutz managed to accidentally ram my head against my bedroom door frame... I got the fellow out of the cot, and he stopped crying to look with great interest at my forehead. One look in the mirror showed me the reason why: There was a lump on my forehead the size of a quail's egg that was rapidly getting larger and larger by the second... It was like watching someone blowing up a balloon, just that the balloon was my head! Thankfully, my MIL helped to rub the haematoma (in local slang, a baluku), and with an application of an ice pack, the swelling went down by 60%. However, I still looked like some weirdo with that lump on my head, and of all days I had to knock my head the day before baby J's baptism! Ended up going for a quick haircut in the evening to cover up my forehead, which looked like I was some mutant from Heros...

Baby J got baptised on Sunday. The boy was extremely grumpy from having to wake up early (since we had to report early for a baptism briefing), and we managed to get him to sleep for the first part of the service. Thankfully, the boy got a 15 minute nap and woke up just before he got baptised, and was groggy and co-operative when he got sprinkled with water...

We had a DG gathering after that at our place as our DG mates D & SY (who are now in the States) were back for a visit, and it was a good time of catching up, eating and drinking tea. Their son, LJ, was exactly 3 months younger than baby J, and was actually heavier, and bigger than him! (Yup, baby J's pretty much on the small side, and we're going to see a PD to see if his weight gain's ok...) And look at those big eyes and amazingly long eyelashes... the boy was ultra cute!

In partnership with...

Read!

The usual copyright stuff.

All pictures in this blog are taken by me unless otherwise stated. Please do not reproduce the content or images from this site without permission, but do have fun trying out any of the crafts I've blogged about. :)